THE NORTHERN APPROACH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9132, 3 July 1908, Page 4

THE NORTHERN APPROACH.

In spite of the application of a heavy top-dressing of river shingle, a week or two ago, to the steeper portion of the road at the northern appioach, its condition is as bad as ever. This can only be expected. For about five chains the roadway is less than twenty feet wide, and along this nar- |

row passage the whole of the inward and-outward northern traffic of a large town is concentrated. The best road metal in the district cculd not stand the wear and tear of this road in midwinter for longer t'ian a month at the outside, and until the road is widened to at least twice its present width, there will always be the same trouble. There is no option now but for vehicles to plough straight ahead through a sea of mud several inches in depth, and yu3terday the footway over the bridge was blocked with cyclists and pedestrians who found it impossible, to negotiate the road. When the northern approach is taken thoroughly in hand (though that day seems far off) it may be a question of whether or not it will be advisable to tar-macadamise or wood-block the roadway, as the strain of the traffic is too great for the usual county method of metalling.